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Helen Keller
The deaf and blind American writer who became famous around the world
Helen Keller was born in Alabama in the USA in 1880. A childhood illness left her deaf and blind, but she still learned to speak and read and write. She wrote several books, graduated from college, and met 12 US presidents. By the end of her life she was famous around the world. Lucy Burns spoke to her great-niece, Adair Faust for Witness History.
This programme is a rebroadcast.
(Photo: Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968). Credit: Hulton Archive)
Last on
Tue 24 Nov 202003:50GMT
BBC World Service
Broadcasts
- Mon 23 Nov 202008:50GMTBBC World Service
- Mon 23 Nov 202012:50GMTBBC World Service
- Mon 23 Nov 202018:50GMTBBC World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa
- Mon 23 Nov 202023:50GMTBBC World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
- Tue 24 Nov 202003:50GMTBBC World Service
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